Japanese animators have a
Japanese animators have a good reason to be nostalgic for 1990s cartoons, and this is very much a tribute to the good animation industry--and the artistic excellence of the movie.<br /><br />The acting is superb, including a great Jake Gyllenhaal as the main character. His much-maligned "trophy" character is a marvelous asset, as is the great Will Smith.<br /><br />The acting in this movie
Japanese animators have a long history of using badly acted characters in their films and their films do not seem to have seen it that well. The problem is that the characters are great, even though they can just be annoying and disconnected.<br /><br />The opening scene of the film makes it seem like a parody of the original "The Lion King" but then, there's not a single line of dialogue that's ripped out of the original. I